AGSI Blog

“The closure of 95 Garda Stations this week is a crime against rural Ireland. And to add insult to injury Minister Shatter launches a Community Crime Prevention Programme booklet on the same day over 90 rural stations close their doors for the last time.” That’s according to John Redmond, General Secretary of the Association of […]

View our info-graphic outlining Garda cut-backs below.  

The GRA Life Assurance Scheme is open to members of all ranks and most AGSI members are members of this scheme. At the GRA conference this year a motion was adopted which makes membership of a representative association (i.e. AGSI, GRA etc.) a condition for membership of the scheme. Colleagues should remind newly-promoted sergeants, and […]

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, in a pre-Budget submission to Finance Minister Michael Noonan, has called for and extension of the February deadline for members to retire with pensions and gratuity paid under 2009 salary rates. The association has also called for more resources to deal with white collar crime, for finance to be provided for IT […]

The National Executive of AGSI has ratified the final form of the rosters as agreed in the Westmanstown negotiations involving all staff associations and garda management. The executive also ratified the terms of the Working Time Agreement (WTA), the principles underlying the agreed rosters. Both the Core and Non-Core rosters and the WTA can be […]

Willie elected AGSI President at Conference Willie Gleeson, long term member of the AGSI National Executive and Senior Vice-President since January this year was elected to the top office of President of the association at the Annual Delegate Conference early in April. Willie is highly experienced in association business having worked at all levels from […]

A garda detective inspector has been honoured by his colleagues for his primary role in establishing a world-leading educational programme for fighting cybercrime – computer and information technology criminality – and for tackling international paedophile rings. D/Insp Paul Gillen is this year’s winner of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) Excellence Award and […]

By now you may have heard of the very sad passing of retired Inspector Eddie (Edmund) Murphy formerly of DMR Traffic, Dublin Castle. Eddie was the Senior Vice President of AGSI and served diligently on the National Executive. Those of you who have been to AGSI Conferences will know that Eddie was passionate about his […]